Sentence examples for sugar canes from inspiring English sources

The phrase 'sugar canes' is correct and usable in written English.
You could use it to refer to the tall, tropical grasses from which sugar is derived. For example: "In many parts of the world, sugar canes are grown to produce sugar."

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sugar canes

noun

Plural of sugar cane

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As an agricultural activity, beekeeping sure beats cutting sugar canes or lifting beets.

The cultivation, reaping and processing of sugar canes dominated all aspects of island life and culture into the early 1900s.

Even the sweets are made locally - pear drops and rhubarb and custards care of Stockley's of Oswaldwhistle, while sugar canes come from Blackpool and mint balls from nearby Wigan.

According to Exxon, algae could yield more than 2,000 gallons of fuel per acre of production each year, compared with 650 gallons for palm trees and 450 gallons for sugar canes.

The shrewdest could exploit Dürer's weakness for sweets (marzipan, candied citron, barley sugar, sugar canes "just as they grow") and his equal weakness for curiosities buffalo horns, bits of bamboo, spears from Calicut, monkeys, coral, parrots, or anything at all from Mexico, "the new land of gold".

"When I was a small boy I used to be wheeled into Woolworths in my pram and I remember one of the first thoughts I had in my life was, do I nick the barley sugar canes first, or do I go for the humbugs?

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"Sugar cane?" Maria Altagracia Lebron said.

"Sugar cane, rum and rumba".

(Sugar cane was first domesticated in New Guinea).

Sugar cane fields replaced collapsed buildings.

Insert a sugar cane skewer through holes.

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